Michael Arrington bought Preople.com from me.
No really!
I have 10+ witnesses of the deal taking place.
And I’m still waiting for my money.
Here is what happened:
About a year ago I was visiting the Techcrunch offices with a bunch of other entrepreneurs. We were all talking and Preople.com came up. Michael asked what my plans were and I responded:
‘I’m going to sell it. Are you interested?’
Michael laughed and said:
‘Yeah, for one dollar…’
To which I replied:
‘SOLD!!!’
Everybody laughed and then he asked if I would be interested in launching Fleck.com at his New York party. I was and we did.
So back to Preople.com. I stopped developing it a while ago but that didn’t stop its growth. No less than 1,708,777 names were looked up since we launched it and we still get between 500 and 1000 visitors a day. It would be great if someone could adopt the service and develop it some more.
And it won’t be difficult to top Michael’s offer…
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4 Responses to “Preople.com: Sold To Michael Arrington”
hm, considering he beats you with 395.000 to 22.500 I think he making a good deal!
Would that mean I’d score up to 790.000 from my current 43 if i’d offer you $2 or is that too simple :-)
so eh, how do i delete my preople account? I can’t seem to be able to find the login anymore :(
Looks like you’ve been bitten by the spammers on that sight, all layout is nonfunctional at my browser and there are a lot of new users with absurd characters… too bad wanted to find out what it was..
Cleaned it up. Sorry about that…